From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] OT: American Culture
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 13:59:59 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180104025959.GA34418@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1515019775.7311.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 17:49:31 -0500, Norman Wilson wrote:
> Random832 (a good year for randomness, that):
>
>> Who says right is positive?
>
> Good question.
Time here is round 14:00 UTC+11. UTC time is 3:00, so UTC+11 = 14:00
makes sense to me. UTC-11 = 14:00 doesn't.
A thing that nobody has mentioned, and for which I can't find a
reference easily: didn't System V have time zone offsets the wrong way
round? I have some recollection from about 1988.
Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-04 2:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-03 22:49 Norman Wilson
2018-01-04 2:59 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2018-01-04 16:48 ` Tony Finch
2018-01-04 17:20 ` Warner Losh
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2018-01-03 2:42 Doug McIlroy
2018-01-03 14:19 ` Random832
2018-01-02 16:43 Clem Cole
2018-01-03 13:25 ` arnold
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